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1922 The oI wa Homemaker vol.2, no.8 N Beth Bailey Iowa State College

Mildred Boyt Iowa State College

Viola Jammer Iowa State College

Marion B. Gardner Iowa State College

Juanita Beard Iowa State College

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Recommended Citation Bailey, N Beth; Boyt, Mildred; Jammer, Viola; Gardner, Marion B.; Beard, Juanita; Heiner, Maida; Turner, Marcia E.; Goeppinger, Katherine; Beyer, Jeanette; Milligan, Opal F.; Storm, Elizabeth; Lerdall, Millie; and Murray, Eleanor (1922) "The oI wa Homemaker vol.2, no.8," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 2 : No. 8 , Article 1. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol2/iss8/1

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Authors N Beth Bailey, Mildred Boyt, Viola Jammer, Marion B. Gardner, Juanita Beard, Maida Heiner, Marcia E. Turner, Katherine Goeppinger, Jeanette Beyer, Opal F. Milligan, Elizabeth Storm, Millie Lerdall, and Eleanor Murray

This article is available in The oI wa Homemaker: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol2/iss8/1 VOL. II NOVEMBER, 1922 No 8 U1l!PKIN gittin' good em' yetllah M ek me open up rny eyes; S eems lrLk it's a-lookin' at rne 'J es' a-la' in dah-saying ((Pies." 'Purkey gobbler gwine 'ro~~nd' blowin', Gwine 'roun' gibbin' sass em' sleLck; J( ee1J on talkin', M istah T1~'k ey, Y 01{; ain't seed no almanac.

Cho ppin' suet in de kitchen, Stonin' raisins in de hall, Beef a-cookin' for de rnincerneat, Spices groun'-I srnell 'ern all. Look hyeah, T~~ 'key, stop dat gobblin', You ain't luned de sense of f eah; Y 01~ ol' fool, yo' naik's in dangah, Do' ym~ know Thanksgibbin's hyecLh '? - Paul LeLwrence Dt~nbar. THE IOWA HOMEMAKER "A Magazine for Homemakers from a Homemaker's School"

VOLUME 2 NOVEMBER, 1922 NUMBER 8

Make Thanksgiving a Real Homecoming With a Dinner in Your Church By N. BETH BAILEY, Associate Professor of Home Economics

THANKSGIVING is a natural time to If it is too expensive to serve turkey choose as Homecoming for the as this one church does, chicken pies are church or community center. The spirit always a drawing-card, though one must of the Pilgrims was that of an overpower­ be sure tnat there is really chicken for ing thankfulness for the abundant har­ each serving. No one should be served vest. They called tog.ether all the people just crust, grav:• and a neck. of the village and even friendly Indians to celebrate with a banquet of venison, Chicken pie Baked potatoes wild turkey, other game, vegetables, Cranberry jelly fruits, nuts, pies and puddings. Those Cold slaw Rolls who had much shared with the less for­ Apple pie Cheese tunate, for they knew that the wonders Coffee of the harvest were not of man's making. Cold slaw is a good salad for a church So it is that in one church, Thanksgiv­ supper since it can be made up early, as ing time is chosen as a homecoming for it improves by standing a couple of hours all friends of the church, rich and poor, in the dressing. A good salad dressing members of long standing and the newly for slaw is made by dissolving a half cup come stranger. All are invited to come of sugar in a half cup of vinegar and add­ to a banquet to give thanks for the har­ ing quickly to one cup of sweet cream. vest and the spirit of comradeship that Thoughts of the fragrant "dinner in the Beat well and pour over one quart of comes from sharing. making" will call even the farthest shredded salted caJbbage, stirring occa­ one home for the day of days The church supper is not a money-mak­ sionally until thoroughly mixed. ing affair, ·but the meal is provided by in his church. One church has made a tradition of donations of food and money from all their oyster stew suppers. This stew is who want to give. The committee has to twenty years act as waiters, carrying most effectively served by the unit service always had most willing response to its the plates to the table. In this way a table plan from big double boilers. There call for help. small kitchen may serve a large number should be plenty of stew for second help­ of people, since only one man for each ings-and have it hot! In this particular church, the homecom­ service table comes to the kitchen. In ing is featured by a turkey dinner which this way, too, the people are served more Oyster stew is served to about five hundred people, so nearly at one time, because there are a Crackers Dill pickles the work must be carefully planned. This number of serving units. This also means Baked beans Catsup is a typical menu: that the food may be served piping hot, Apple sauce Roast turkey Bread dressing because it is kept in big containers on the Brown bread Doughnuts Mashed potatoes Gravy service table and carried but a short dis­ Ice Cream Cake Scalloped corn tance on the plates. Coffee Cranberry sauce Rolls T.he coffee is brought in big pitchers to Baked beans and brown bread are as Pumpkin pie a la mode each service table and poured into the typically American as oyster stew, dough­ Coffee cups, ready to be passed by the waiters. nuts and apple sauce and they combine A committee plans the meal and has the In removing the plates, the boys bring to make a very satisfactory church sup­ turkeys roasted at a big bakery oven. The the soiled plates to thetr service table, per. rest of the food is prepared at home and where the men scrape and stack the Since Thanksgiving is a truly American sent to the church ready to serve. Some dishes onto big trays. These are carried day, it is but fitting that we choose truly people prefer to give money which is to the kitchen and exchanged for trays of American foods for the celebration of this used to buy the turkeys, rolls, butter, cof­ pie a Ia mode, or the pies and ice cream day. In this list come oyster stew, tur­ fee, cream, sugar and the ice cream. may be served from each serving unit in key, chicken pie, cranberries, potatoes, Pumpkins scooped out to make baskets the same way as the first course. baked beans, corn, pumpkin pie, any pie are pretty when filled with red apples for The success of a large supper of this a Ia mode, and doughnuts. Other nations table decorations. If nuts are plentiful, kind depends on very careful planning may serve similar dishes, but no one it is always fun to have bowls of cracked and requires a real general in charge of would ever confuse a piece of real U. S. nuts on the table, too. The buttered rolls, the dining room to keep things moving. A. apple pie and a Tarte aux Pommes of -cream, sugar and cranberry sauce should Even at a church s·upper one wants hot France! One may read of the glories of also be on the tables that they may be foods hot, one likes plenty of good hot the chefs of France, yet who of us at passed without the help of the waiters. coffee, and one has the right to want Thanksgiving time would trade a real An easy service is to have a small serv­ prompt service. Any party can be such home-cooked turkey dinner for the most ice table for each long table seating thirty a flat failure if the service is slow, gorgeous creations of a Marie Antoine people. The men can take care of the poorly directed or careless. It is no more Careme. service of this dinner and give the women pleasure to sit watching your own plate So it is at Thanksgiving time we re­ a much-needed rest. One man supplies steam, grow cool and finally cold while joice in the harvest, and we glory in the one service table with a platter of carved your neighbor waits, than it is for him traditions of our country. We wish to turkey, the dressing, a bowl of mashed to gaze longingly at your serving while express the fullness of our joy in a Home­ potatoes and a dish of scalloped corn. its aromas tantalize his nostrils. There coming of our church folk where we all Two men stand at each service table and cannot be too much said in favor of sit down to a real American Thanksgiving serve the plates, while boys from sixteen quick, efficient service. dinner. 2 THE lOWA HOMEMAKER Marie Reviews Fifth A venue By MILDRED BOYT

New York, N. Y. all tell you that suede EAR HARRIET: is the coming thing, but D The styles are so as yet we have seen little lovely this year I can't re­ of it. Many combinations sist telling you all about of kid and patent, and tliem. How lucky you are satin and patent are to be getting your trous· shown. The sensible ox­ seau now when the styles fords we wore last fall can­ are so well adapted for not ·be purehased this year. traveling. In fact, very few oxfords A trip down Fifth Ave­ fords of any kind are to nue is an education in it­ be seen. The strapped . self. Every well-dressed pumps we wore all sum­ woman is in black-black mer seem to be the vogue not only up to the eyes, this fall ·also, with but few but over them! All black! variations. The Russian Dresses are made for the boots you wrote about are most part of Canton crepe. not worn here. I have All are very long waisted, seen but a faw pairs. and the newer ones have Every feminine eye will no waist lines at all. The Every feminine eye will be pleased with the variety of attractive un­ be pleased with the varie­ dress fits snugly over the derwear displayed in the shop windows this season! ty ~f attractive under­ bust and waist down to wear displayed in the shop the hips, wnere it flares windows this season. Neg­ enough to make a comfortably full skirt. Although black is all one sees on the ligee is daintiy colored, and of filmy The sleeves arfl of all shapes. Some Avenue, the shop windows are showing soft stuffs, and yet so trim and tastily are very short. Most of them are .full, or everything but black. ·Golden brown and designed that it appeals equally to the three-quarter lengths. Some very stun­ leaf brown, and some unusual shades of business woman or the debutante. Don't ning ones hang longer underneath, a few henna seem to be the newest. Dresses neglect a chance to get some of these of them coming nearly to the bottom of made of these colors are trimmed with more than attractive pieces for your the skirt. Some sleeves start at the all-over Indian .beading, and although trousseau. waist line, and all are very large. In very heavy, are extremely pretty. Hats Of course · I must not overlook hats. fact, this seems to be the year of sleeves also are being shown in these shades, and To me the hat shops are the most attrac­ -if one's sleeves are "right," one's cos­ combinations of them adorn the newer tive of any, this year especially so. The tume is correct. beaded bags. By the way, your trousseau shapes this season seem to suit every will not be complete without a beaded bag. Skirts are, of course, long. Here in style of face and figure. And if care is They can be gotten in lovely colors that used in the selection, a hat may look as New York the popular length is three harmonize with all the fall shades, and inches from the ground, altho in other though it had grown on one! Very large they make such an attractive spot of picture hats are worn in the restaurants, eastern cities nine and ten inches are color with an all-black costume. seen more. Many hems are uneven, hang­ theatres, and even on the street. Many ing longer on the sides. Then the popular Some evening dresses are black, but of these are trimmed with glycerined os­ coat dress hangs shorter in front. Many the most interesting are of very bright trich feathers. Small hats are still very skirts are draped or caught up on the -colors. One sees many gorgeous feather good, and are made of brighter -colored side, thus making an irregular hem line. fans. These match the bright gowns and materials. These are also trimmed with Some lovely new frocks of leaf brown make spots of interest for the hlack ones. feathers and quills. A popular way is a are now being shown in the windows. A two-tone blue of straight eagle quills is group of feathers on one side, drooping Many of the velvet dresses are trimmed especially beautiful. over the -brim. Some of the small hats in fur. A charming one is of black vel­ As for shoes- the very low heel has are made of novelty materials and vet trimmed with bands of Persian lamb completely gone out, and in its place we trimmed with the same. on the skirt. The high collar is also of have either the military or Spanish. With I hope that these ideas may be of some the fur, as are the cuffs which end the the long skirts one usually sees French long, tight-fitting sleeves. This dress is or Spanish heels. Shoes are fashioned help to you in your selections. one of the newer, no waist-line models, of satin, patent or kid, and some of the I remain as always, and is as chick as any I have seen. very new ones are of suede. Shoe men MARIE.

Art, As Frank Alvah Parsons Sees It By VIOLA JAMMER

VRANK ALVAH PARSON, president the way of progress and left a field open now there are ninety colleges and many of the New York School of Fine and for clear thinking and action. art schools. · Applied Arts, and one of this country's "Psychology is all the rage now. First, "Art is an answer to a need which must most recognized authorities on Interior because people don't know what it is, and govern our selection. Anything, really Decoration and Costume Design, ad­ second, when they find it out, it is merely artistic, must be fit for use. Accordingly, dressed Iowa State College students at the study of what is in their heads and there are three reasons for wearing two lectures, October 30 and November 2. how it got there. Things are taken into clothes: shelter, sense of privacy and at­ In his first lecture on the "Psychology consciousness thru our five senses, the traction. Clothes should not be attrac­ of Art in Dress," President Parson said, greatest of these being sight. Everyone tive to startle attention, but to show per­ "People must study how to dress, in or­ has an aesthetic sense, an appetite for sonality. The lines of our clothes and der to know what to wear, just as one beauty., which, if not used, starves. the proportions are made according to must study music, in order to play an "Home Economics grew from a need. the figure. When decoration is applied, instrument. Just now there is a big Seventeen years ago, the New York it is intended to attract attention. where chance to do constructive work. The war School of Fine and Applied Art offered one is called to look. has destroyed many things which were in the first course in Interior Decoration; "Art is also a matter of color. When THE lOWA HOMEMAKER 3 color speaks favorably, it is artistic. The their expression of individuality. All The laws of decoration applied in art amount, or area of color used expresses commercial articles today are machin­ as we think of them today really date to taste." ery made, losing all personality." Man­ the time of Leonardo de Vinci, who for­ In conclusion, President Parson said, ual training is taught in the public mulated the following: "When the principle of art is applied to schools with the purpose of recreating 'I. Balance is the chief requisite of clothes, instead of public fashion, then this lost art, but there is a need for head any form of art. will clothing be the expression of art." work, as well as for hands. 2. Any object is decorative only as On November 2, in his address on "Art, Things, today, are made for the stand­ long as it does not interfere with use. Education and Industrial Outlook," Presi­ ard tastes of the masses. When they have 3. Decoration should follow structure dent Parson said, "Artistic appreciation the two where-with-ails, brains and dol­ and add strength and beauty. comes from a study of simple details lars, to improve the situation, then will which arouses reaction, growing into design be beautiful and fit. The objects 4. Decoration should be consistent something larger." must be in the public minds before the thruout. "Educa:tion," he said, "is the adjust·· designers can create them. Institutions The intensity, or the lightness and ment of an inliividual to an environment; are training their people to better their darkness of color is very important, since as time changes the process of education tastes in relation to public and private color tells the story. must change also. We are living in a life, since environment is the greatest In closing, President Parson said, commercial and educational age. No teacher. As President Parson expresses "There will be no art this century, except longer are antique textiles and furniture it, "Man is practically what he lives in," that eX'pressed in life. It will come from being formulated by the brain and put or, "We will do the state of mind we're the public, and be established by the together by the hands-works valued for in." precedent in homes."

Costuming and Its Relation to the Individual By MARION B. GARDNER. Instructor of Home Economics

AVE you ever noticed the "costuming" figure is next traced with a hard pencil self fortunate today if her shoulders are H of cartoon comic supplement charac­ from the negative which is held at the narrow, for then the fashionable bertha ters?. Indeed! who would wear such light to insure exactness in outline. From will become her. Flat Peter Pan collars clothes? The lanky Andy Gump who the tracing paper the figure is transferred obligingly shorten the neck if she will wears a "No man's collar" is ridiculously to white drawing paper of a size suit­ wear her hair low. How envious the garbed for his campaign. His Prince Al­ able for a sketch. Now, the fundamental smaller woman is of the queenly height bert, vividly striped trousers and inev­ decision must be made which will control which permits the wearing of large hats. itable "stove pipe" elongate his gaunt fig­ all future selections of outer apparel. And the stout woman, that harassed ure. To complete the picture, there is a Into which of these three types small, tall, person whom "no-body-loves--" what three-inch collar which almost interferes or stout, does the figure come? The type may she wear? Vertical lines must be with his hearing. The names of Mutt and determines the most suitable lines to be her creed. The embryo orator's formula Jeff recall similar exaggeration of physi­ striven for in designing. for emphasis- "the same thing over and cal peculiarities by costuming, A small figure naturally requires lines over again, only louder each time--" When people use these same devices, that give both width and height. Al­ can apply here. If the stout woman will unknowingly, in their selection of wear­ most everyone realizes that a small bun­ repeat the vertical line in her hat, her ing apparel, the result is not ridiculous galow with a wide arch between the liv­ coiffure, her neck line and in the basic but lamentable. The basic rules for ap­ ing and dining rooms requires the same construction of the garment, she will sus­ propriateness in dress are simple. To color treatment of walls and rugs in or­ tain the illusion of height. select proper apparel one must first real­ der to give the effect of an unbroken ex­ The majority of the present-day mate­ ize the proportions of one's figure. panse. Yet many small women constant­ rials adapt themselves better to certain In the class in costume design, the ly wear blouses and skirts of contrasting types than to others. The many varied young women of the classes have photo­ color. Since anything which breaks the crepes and other soft materials are most graphs made of themselves. To secure vertical line is ·to be avoided, tiered or suitable for the stout figure, while the the exact outline of the figure and in or­ ruffled skirts should not be considered. taller and shorter slender figures may der to achieve the greatest contrast Two-tone dresses, where the contrast­ wear taffeta, organdy and stiffer materials against the grey background of the nega­ ing material is used for deep-set sleeves as well as the soft. tive, the girls wear white, close-fitting and for side paneling, tend to give width. undergarments when photographed. Just By being careful that her foot gear and AT SET OF SUN as an architect must visualize and con­ head gear harmonize with her costume If we sit down at set of sun sider all elevations of a house, so must a small woman can add much to her And count the things that we have done, the costume designer imagine and con­ height. And counting, find struct a garment that is harmonious The tall woman's problem is the re­ One self-deserving act, one word from various angles. Front view and verse of that of her smaller sister, for That eased the heart of one who heard, side-back view pictures are therefore she desires to clip her height and conse­ One glance most kind taken. quently must strive for horizontal lines That fell like sunshine where it went, When the photograph is developed, the in her costume. She may consider her- Then we may count the day well spent.

A pin, a drape or a streamer can add just the individual touch to make a costume "different." 4 THE lOWA HOMEMAKER Painting the Fall and Winter Landscapes By JUANITA BEARD

ANY gardeners feel that autumn is a Plants valuable for autumn coloration *Rhus typhina-Staghorn Sumach M season of regrets. This feeling has of leaves: Rosa blanda-Meadow Rose been expressed by the old Chinese poet, A. Early. Rosa multiflora-Japanese Climbing Lu Yun, in the line "At the fall of the Acer rubrum-Red Maple. Rose year there is autumn in my heart." :The Acer ginnala-Siberian Maple. Rosa rugosa-Japanese Rose fall months of September, October and Acer saccharum-Sugar Maple Viburnum americanum-American November might be likened to three sis· Betula lutea-Yellow Birch High-bush Granberry ters' endowed with diminishing amounts Populus eugenei-Carolina Poplar Viburnum opulus-Hig~·bush Cran· of this world's goods. September's glory Rhus typhina-Staghorn Sumach berry is inherited from summer. October decks B. Medium. *Sorbus-Mountain Ash herself in a cloak of scarlet and gold for Ampelopsis quinquefolia-Virginia *Symphoricarpos-Snowberry and In· her final festive days of Indian summer; dian Currant but naught is left November save some Creeper gaudy berries, the last bits of old family Berberis Thunbergii-Japanese Plants valuable for colored twigs or Barberry. jewelry, and the laces woven by the Fraxinus Americana-White .Ash. bran-ches: branches and twigs against the winter Betula papyrifera-white ·bark-Paper sky. Quercus rubra-Red Oak Viburnum acerifoluim-Maple· Birch Very bleak and dreary is the winter leaved Viburnum Cornus alba-blood-red, Red-twigged landscape if it contains no color con· Amelanchier-Shad Bush Dogwood trasts. And how easy it is in planning Crataegus-Thorn the garden, to provide for some winter Cornus alba sibirica-coral-red, Siber­ Carya alba-Hickory ian Dogwood pictures. Trees and shrubs bring inter· Rhus canadensis-Fragrant Su· est to the winter garden in colored Cornus paniculata-grey bark, Grey mach Dogwood branches and brilliant fruits. And many Viburnum dentatum-Arrowwood of the plants which produce fruit valuable Rosa blanda-reddish purple, Meadow for color effects in winter are valuable C. Late. Rose for their flowering effects the next spring. Aoeer platanoides-Norway Maple Rosa Iucida alba-yellow bark, White Some of these plants also produ-ce fruits Cladrastis lutea-Yellow-wood Willow in the warmer seasons which attracts the Cornus florida-Flowering Dog- Although faH planting is recommended birds away from other fruit. Mulberries wood by many, spring planting has its advan­ and shad-bushes will protect cherries and Evonymus alatus-cork-barked tages. Plants which are not vigorous in strawberries; elders, Virginia creeper and Burning Bush their habit of root growth and which are black cherry will protect grapes; elders Evonymus atropurpureus- Burn· susceptible to abnormal conditions of and mulberries will protect raspberries ing Bush freezing and thawing, or to excessive and blackberries. Quercus coccinea-Scarlet Oak moisture in the soil during the winter The color of branches or twigs is in· Plants valuable for fruit. months, should not be transplanted in the teresting from two points of view, either (Note: Plants marked indicate those fall. The most important illustrations of because of the vivid coloring such as is attracting birds.) this type are the beech, flowering dog­ seen in the red-twigged dogwood, or of *Berberis (in variety)-Barberry wood, and the less hardy types of ever· the general tone of color such as is seen *Celastrus scandens-American Bitter· greens. The lists given in this article in the golden-barked willow, in which the sweet can be planted satisfactorily in the spring: color as a mass is more effective at a dis· *Crataegus coccinea and cordata­ · For you who were too late in planting tanoee. Birches and dogwoods bring out Thorn your gardens this fall, there will be the sharp contrast against a background of Evonymus alatus-Cork·barked Burn· long winter to plan and live in your gar· snow or a green background of ever· ing Bush den-to-be, before spring comes and you greens. *Econymus atropurpureus-Burning can actually plant your garden of dreams. The following planting lists have been Bush Thus, dreaming of next year and the made for gardens in the mid-western Ligustrum ihota-Japanese Privet next, you can defy Lu Yun and say "There states: *Rhus glabra-Smooth Sumach is no autumn in my heart!"

"A Timely Thought Saves Nerves Distraught" By MAIDA HEINER

IME savers are almost indispensable Often when a small hem is made it is rial. Tie the presser foot to a screw at T in our busy lives and we look for only necessary to press it before stitching. the top of the machine. This leaves the shortcuts in everything. There are many •Every woman who does sewing for her· material free to •be moved about in any small things which if considered when self or her family has a sewing machine, direction. Overcasting can be done in one is sewing will save a great deal of but how many women ~eally use it effi· the same manner except that the material time and sometimes prove more satis· ciently? Every sewing machine has in it is moved in a zigzag motion. factory than more detailed methods. attachments and a book of directions, but I remember that the first time I put Many women believe that in order to most women fail to use this valuable in· scallops on the bottom of a house dress I do nke sewing they must first baste every· formation. A few hours spent in learn· marked the scallops, then cut another thing, but that is not true, and a great ing how to use the attachments would piece for facing of the same size and deal of time can be saved by the use of save hours of time in days to come. How stitched them together. Thru a little ex· pins and a fiat iron. Instead of being many times have we not all sat down to perimentation I found that it can be done basted seams can be pinned with just as mend by hand underwear, bedding and more easily in another way. Straighten good results. Always put the pin so that similar clothing and consumed more val· off the bottom of the dress with an even the point will be at right angles to the uable time than necessary for such tasks? line. Turn the hem to the right side. Lay edge of the material; then when the seam This can all be done with the sewing rna· a pattern the size of the desired scallops is stitched one is able to stitch right to chine in very much less time. Instead of so that the points come to the hem line. the pin and pull it out with()ut interfer· lowering the presser foot so it firmly Mark the scallops with a pencil. Stitch ing with the seam. If a second stit-ching holds the material in place. lower it along the pencil line. Cut out the seal· is necessary, the fiat iron can be used. enough so that it just tou-ches the mate· lops, allowing a small hem, turn so that THE IOWA HOMEMAKER 5

the stitching will go to the inside and most people give is that it is much easier the tape. Now you perhaps think that press to make the scallops smooth. The to buy it. Of course it is, but very often it will be a hard task to fold the edges in. top of the hem is then stitched. Scallops the materials are not as good as you A little device made on muslin makes it of this kind can be used to finish petti· would like. The bias tape at the store very simple. Draw two parallel lines just coats, slips and pillow cases. comes in a limited variety of colors and the distance· apart as you want the fin­ When making garments which require usually the one you are looking for you ished tape. Make a catch stitch, using no fitting a quick feB seam saves time. cannot get. This is not the case when the parallel lines as a guide. Run the Hold the two edges of the material so you make it yourself. You need only to bias tape underneath this stitch, pressing that one edge will extend one-fourth of get the material and make any color. It th\) edges in. Continue to pull the tape an Inch beyond the other. Pin in place is also much cheaper to make your own. untH all is pressed and drawn through. Everyone who sews has had the expe­ and turn in the raw edge. Make the first First get a true bias by folding a square stitching so it just catches the raw edge. piece of cloth and cut a:long the diagonal rience of pressing a seam in a wool gar­ Turn down flat and press. The last stitch­ fold. Cut off the one point along the diag­ ment. It is almost impossible to press ing is put along the folded edge. such a seam without having some mark onal line about one-third of the distance on the right side. To avoid this ugly Cable stitching makes a very pretty down. Be sure to cut with the thread and mark make a tube ·bY rolling a magazine trimming for dresses and can be put on not across. Take the edge that you last and wrapping a cloth around it. Then in straight lines or in designs consisting cut and lay it on the opposite edge, but when you are pressing a seam you can of curved and straight lines. If a design do not lay it directly on the point. Allow hold the seam directly on the tube. An­ is used it is pinned on the wrong side of just the desired width of the tape to ex­ other way is to put a piece of paper be­ the material. Fill the bobbin with heavy tend. Stitch along this edge to make a tween the seam and the cloth. Thus the silk or mercerized thread or yarn. Then seam. Now cut with a scissors and use marks are .put on the paper and not so when the design is stitched the heavy a gauge if you have one. The material they will show on the right side of the thread will be on the right side. as you now have looks like a tubing. All material. Making your own bias tape is not as the tape can be c ut in one long piece, the After you get the saving time habit you hard as it sounds. The argument that seam that you made makes the seams in will be inventing short cuts for yourself.

Naming Canned Fruits In the Light of Experience By KATHERINE GOEPPINGER By MARCIA E. TURNER, Associate Professor of Horne Economics EARLY a century ago a young man in N Boston, named William Underwood, was laying the foundation of a great in­ REAT-GRANDMOTHER GREEN was ing my question about the difference in dutsry. He had become interested in the G afraid of "night air." It had been quality between two of his brands, said, newly discovered but little understood her experience that sleeping with her "No difference whatever, both kinds came science of ureserving foods, and while he head uncovered was bad for her health. out of the same hopper." Then he added was convinced that certain perishable You can't discount your own experience rather slyly, "Every woman, you know, products could be saved from deteriora­ and that's all there is to it! has to have her pet brand-can't make tion in an appetizing and wholesome way, any other do the work-so we cater to he probably never fully realized that he Back before her time, oh years and them." He went on to tell of a grocer was the father of the great canning in­ years, some more remote grandmother who keeps on hand empty containers of dustry of today. would have assured you just as positively both brands so that if he runs short of Those were hard times for William Un­ that on clear days the sun outside their one kind, all he has to do is to fill the derwood. Like all pioneers, one of his cave moved right across the sky, and in container from the "other kind." greatest obstacles was public opinion. all her life she had never known it to "Sealed foods," as they were called in fail. Some mistake about it, eh? And Now, do you know I was tactless enough to tell that story once, when I those days, were decidedly unpopular; she would have stiffened her spine and people mistrusted them-simply couldn't tightened her lips. "What nonsense!" thought it exceedingly apt. But did it convince anyone? It did not. Down understand how Underwood could put Because, you see, she had proved it in her things up in glass jars and make them own experience. through the centuries came the indom­ itable spirit of Grandmother Cave-woman, keep when they couldn't. In fact, for You and I live in another time. We stiffened spine and tightened lip and all, want of a ·market in this country he often aren't superstitious, not a bit of it! We with her age-old answer: "Yes, but you had to hunt up sea captains and persuade undertake a journey on Friday without a see my ex1Jerience has proved it." them to dispose of his "sealed foods" in quiver; and if a black cat crosses our new countries overseas. where fresh pro­ path, we walk boldly on. Neither do we Let's be honest with each other, you visions were scarce and where the colon­ plant potatoes in the dark (was it?) of and I. Can we give an intelligent reason ists had to be thankful for what~ver they the moon, or sleep with our heads to the for "my way" of accomplishing a piece of could get. north. We live in an enlightened age. work or f'or pursuing a stated course This was in the year 1821, a year before Our great-granddaughters will never other than "It's the way I've always the present house of Underwood was speak patronizinglv of ns or-wait a min­ done" or "It was my mother's way." Is founded. A few years later Mr. Under­ ute-will they perhaps? your reason provable? Modern research wood planted "love apples" in his garden has thrown light upon these "expe­ Let's see what the trouble was with and was putting them up in glass. "Love riences" of ours, and has furnished a apples" were considered "pizen:'( then. those forerunners of ours. Grandmother wealth ·of material upon which to base Cave-woman based her ·experience upon Now they are ealled "tomatoes," and we our reasoning. Every home is in some consume about 340 million cans a year. the evidence of her senses, and, poor dear, measure a research laboratory and every she really wasn't to blame, because she Thus, little by little, Mr. Underwood, homemaker who is working intelligently strong in the belief that there was a fu­ was embracing the latest prevalent theory and open mindedly for a truer solution of and couldn't have reasoned out the real ture for the business, perfected his pro­ her multifarious problems is doing · her cesses, and about 1838, when suitable tin­ situation if she had tried. Grandmother fine share in bringing in more light. Green, too, was using the evidence of plate was produced, he gradually ·gave up her own imagination, which was 'fed Open mindedness-that is keytWord of glass and began to use tin "conisters,"­ by a theory, freely accepted by all the progress! Yet don't let's be too open­ cylinders of tin-laboriously wrought and neighbors. minded, if you please. That was one sealed by hand. trouble with our great grandmothers, you In those days typewriters duplicating Now then, is it perhaps conceivable know. They accepted bindly all popular processes, and stenographers :were un­ that you and I, modern women, living in theory whether it happened to relate to a heard of. Books, letter s, and business this modern world, sometimes have opin­ health program or to the solar system, documents of all kinds were written by ions based upon our own experience, too, and obligingly fitted their experiences to hand. "Canisters" proved to be too long which we wa:rmly defend, but which it! My neighbor's theory may be correct. a word to write many times, and it ap­ might not "hold water" if examined in It sounds plausible. Perhaps the whole pears on the early Underwood books in the light of honest investigation? town is accepting it as true. Very well, Mr. Underwood's own hand as "Can'st's," Let me give an illustration. The su­ I will treat it just as I do "my way"-1 then a little later as "Can-s," and finally perintendent of a large factory which will wait to see it subjected to proof be­ just "Cans." This is the origin of our puts out a staple food product, answer- fore I consent to build upon it. modern word "Can." 6 THE iOWA IIOMEMAil.ER Who's There and Where By JEANETTE BEYER

CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT GIVES for Lola Placeway Bennett, according to madly after Hi, knowing that my horse SCHOLARSHIP FUND Miss Maria Roberts, who visited her this will insist on doing whatever his horse summer, is a member of the liobrary does no matter what happens to me.'' That the daughters of Iowa State Col­ lege are loyal is again proven by Carrie board, and also president of the junior Mrs. Morris instructed in the Chemis­ school board of Orange. Perhaps it try department for a year after gradua­ Chapman Catt who gives to h er Alma should be explained that in Galifornia Mater $100,000 as a scholarship fund. tion. From Ames she and her husband the cities provide two s-chool boards, the went to Camp Humphreys, Virginia, eight Mrs. Gatt, a member of the class of senior board for the high school and the miles out of Washington, where they had 1880, went out from Ames, forty-two junior for the first eight grades. In ad­ a glimpse of "capital life"; thence to years ago, after a ·busy college life of dition Mrs. Bennett has just completed a Camp Knox, Kentucky, and then to Camp campus activities in debating clubs and year as state president of P. E, 0 . Lewis, Washington. literary societies and as a brilliant scholar Mr. Bennett, who recently lost his life and a popular leader among her class­ in a boat accident, was formerly head of mates. the Chemistry department at Iowa State Miss N. Beth Bailey, Assistant Profes­ A year ago last June the same Carrie College. sor of Home Economics has written an Chapman Catt r eturned to Iowa State article entitled "When the Club Meets at Your Home," which appears in the Oc­ College as a woman who had done more AMES WOMAN ENTERS RUSH than any other person to promote suf­ tober issue of Successful Farming. The frage for women. She had taught s-chool, MEDICAL article gives valuable suggestions about done newspaper work, lectured exten­ Martha Belle Farnum is the only what to serve. sively, and had been both national and woman of the five Ames graduates who international president of the suffrage qualified in the examinations for en­ movement. As a symbol of appreciation trance to Rush Medical college, at the Verna Hazen, who graduated in 1920 of her splendid work in the interests of University of Chicago this fall. Out of a and who since that time has been home womankind Iowa State College bestowed waiting list of 235 applicants only 35 were demonstration agent at Anamosa, was upon this world-famous woman the degree allowed to enter the school. married Wednesday, September 27, to Mr. of Doctor of Laws, the same as was given Miss Farnum holds two degrees from . Roy M. Joslin. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace this Iowa State College. In home economics year. she received her B. S. in '17, and in '18 a Miss Bertha A. Holden, who has been That Mrs. Catt has a good sense of hu­ B. S. in Industrial Science with a major -connected with the Home Economics Ex­ mor is illustrated by a story which she· in chemistry. tension Service for two years, was mar­ told at her own expense during her visit After graduation she was a dietitian in ried on October 10 to Mr. John J. Round in Ames. It seems that at the time when Mi-chael Reis Hospital in Chicago, and at Pittsford, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. the suffrage movement was being formu­ then for the past few years she took Round will make their future home in lated the school children of the country work at Ames and instructed in Physio­ Wakefield, Massachusetts. were asked to bring their pennies to raise logical chemistry. a Carrie Chapman Catt fund to aid. So This summer Miss Farnum received when one mother asked her little girl her Master's degree from the University Miss Jessie McCorkindale, who has what it was she wanted the money for, of Chicago, takin'g her work under Dr. taught and taken graduate work at Iowa the child r eplied, "Teacher said to bring Coke, who recently married Dr. •E-lizabeth State for the past two years since her our pennies for Charlie Chaplin's cat!" W. Miller, whom graduates will r emem­ graduation, has tendered her resignation. An incident which Mrs. Catt considered ber as a former professor of home econom­ Miss McCorkindale was married at her a mighty good joke. ics at Iowa State. home at Odebolt, Iowa, on September 9th This gift completes the purpose agreed to Mr. Frank Kerekes of the Civil En­ J!,'ineering department. They will make upon by Mr. and Mrs. Catt, before Mr. ARMY LIFE AN INTERESTING Catt's death, to provide a way to help their home in Ames. worthy students in the college 'which was EXPERIENCE their alma mater. Mrs. Catt came as stu­ A glimpse into army life is given by Miss Nelle Knappenberger, who has dent and earned her -college education •by Frances Morrison Morris, '20, who is now been in the clothing department of the teaching. Mr. Catt earned his way living at Camp ·Lewis. Washington, with Home Economics division for the past through college also, and at the time of her little daughter, , Jean, and her hus­ three years ~ has resigned from her posi­ his death ranked among the most emi­ band, D. A. (Hi) Morris, an Ames C. E. tion. Miss Knappenberger was married nent of American engineers. The gift of and a first lieutenant in the sixth engi­ May 8 in Berkeley, California, to Mr. Har­ $100.000 is to be used as a ·permanent neers. lan Johnson, who has charge of research fund and the income will be apportioned She writes: "We all (the engineers) work in the Soils department at Ames. as scholarships to the most deserving live close together in the "Area," two Mr. Johnson received his doctor's degree students. rows of barracks with the K. O.'s nice from Berkeley in June. They will be at house at one end- the head, and our fun­ home in Ames. ny little house at the other end- the foot. RECEIVES DEGREE FROM But the grounds are wonderful, lovely Alumni- How do you like our new COLUMBIA green grass, walks bordered ·by cobble­ marching song? I wish you might hear us Norma Daniels, writing from Leipzig, stones, and lots and lots of rose bushes sing it when the band swings into the Germany, informs her Ames friends that in bloom, as well as nasturtiums and rhyt:hm- sweet peas. On clear days we can look she received her degree of Bachelor of Fight, Ames Fight! Fight, Ames Fight! Literature from Columbia in June. up and see Mt. Rainier sixty-five miles away. It's queer how this one monstrous Fight for Ames with all your might! This globe trotter has taught in Porto snow-clad peak sticks up. It looks thou­ For the glory of Old I. S. C.! Rico. invested in oil which brought a com­ sands of feet above the rest of the moun­ Swing along! Sing a song! fortable fortune, studied Spanish art, and tains. and when there are clouds around With a spirit big and strong! history in Spain, and travelled over the its base it seems merely my ima·gination And our fighters will win victory! most of Europe. This year she and her and not a reality at all." For it's Fight!! Fight!! Fight!! mother will spend the winter in Ger­ "We got here just in time for me to For the good Old I. S. C.! many. join the C. O.'s riding class for the offi­ Winning great glory and fame! cers' wives of the regiment. I like if And where'er we go They will always know LOLA PLACEWAY BENNETT mostly for the -chance to get acquainted, but I am learning a lot, too. He is teach­ That these fighters are fighting for Ames! ACTIVE IN LOCAL WORK ing us to do jumps. and it's more fun! The arrangement is by Miss Rosalind Evidently raising oranges on a twelve­ Last class time-we have it twice a week Cook of the music department from an acre ranch in Orange, California, isn't - the Major let me jump and it's much old artillery song. The words are by E. enough to keep this Ames woman busy more fun doing it sedately than tearing· Don Dixon. THE lOWA HOMEMAKER 7 A Tea Room That 1s Different By OPAL F. MILLIGAN

EA ROOMS! There have been many The interior of the Maples is English. vat.e dining rooms for parties and special T of all types spring up in the last The high ceiling, long narrow windows occasions. few years, but. rarely do you find one and great doors are most attractive. The name and color scheme of the tea that has the atmosphere and the setting The walls and woodwork are a cream room are carried out in a most attractive of the "Maples" ·on the campus of Iowa ivory, while orange silk curtains with manner. The menu cards are old blue State college. figured cretonne valances grace th€ and ivory with small ornate maple leaves The Maples is located in the home of windows. The chairs and tables are an on them. The paper doilies have a maple the late Dean Stanton. Every student adaptation of an early colonial type. leaf design in them, and the leaves on and old grad will remember "Stantie," They are of light yellow and deep blue the dainty muslin aprons are outlined in but do they know that when Mr. Stanton to harmonize with the walls. orange thread that matches the curtains. was in college he lived in the attic of this In the room that used to oo the dining And the food? Is it as attractive? old house? After his graduation he be· room is an old-fashioned built-in china Everyone who dines here once comes came. associated with the college and 'closet. Rare pieces of old Wedgwood back again. And who wouldn't, when served the institution until his death in and willow ware stately stand behind the you can get fresh home-made rolls each 1920, and lived the greater part of his glass doors. A small porch enclosed in meal? And once each week and some­ lif in this old English house, which glass opens off of the dining room. This times twice the famous Maples brown stands so sedately on a knoll of the cam­ little porch proves most popular during sugar roll appears on the menu. Then pus grounds. The house is surrounded the warmer months of the year. It com­ comes the pumpkin pies with black wal­ with gr·eat maple trees, which gave it the mands a view of Lake La Verne, the sur· nuts and whipped cream, and the cold, name of the "Maples." After Dean Stan· rounding hills and the tea room flower crisp salads. But why even mention these ton's death, Mrs. Stanton established the garden, which supplies the posies used good things and antagonize you so? tea room in memory of her husband and on the tables in the summer and fall. the old home name was retained. One cannot help but feel at home in Th old living room has a colonial fire· this tea room that is so differilnt from There are filw tea rooms that have plaoo in it. In winter the college folks had such associations, few tea rooms, in­ like to take their evening lunch before the average, and hominess is just what deed, that have such a homelike atmos­ the open grate. Antique brass candle­ the Stantons want you to feel in remem­ phere, since greatest care has been taken sticks are the only ornament on the brance of the late Dean of the Junior not to destroy this "hom€likeness." mantel. Two other rooms serve as pri· college.

Sour Milk and Its Uses By ELIZABETH STORM, Home Demonstration Agent, Webster County

"MARTHA," inquired Anne, as she Soda is the leavening agent for £our milk Sour Milk Griddle Ca!..es watched her farmer cousin put dishes. One-half teaspoon of soda is used 21hc flour 1 tsp. soda away several pans of sour milk, "how to each cup of sour milk. % tsp. salt 1 egg in the world, I mean culinary world, do "I use sour milk in quick breads, ·grid­ 2c sour milk you use up so much sour milk? You save dle cakes, simple cakes, doughnuts and Mix and sift flour, salt and soda to­ such quantities of it, yet in the week I cookies. In my card index under "Sour gether. Add sour milk and !Well-beaten have been here I have seen no evidences Milk" you will find a list of recipes egg; beat thoroly and drop by spoonfuls of it in our meals." which you may look up under their re· on a hot griddle. "You haven't recognized it, for I use spective headings." And Martha brought ·it ·often. Sour milk may be used in so forth the card index in which Anne Sour Milk Gingerbread many different ways which are truly de­ found the following recipes: %c fat 1 tsp. soda licious besides being of important food %c sugar 1 tsp. ginger value." Graham Bread 2 eggs 1 tsp. cinnamon "Tell me all about it, Martha, I know 3c graham flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1c sour milk 14 tsp. cloves 1c white flour 1 tsp. soda 1c molasses 1 tsp. salt so little of its use, but I promise to be 1 an interested pupil." hc brown sugar 2c sour milk 3c flour 1 tsp. salt 1 egg "Well, Anne, let's begin with cottage Mix the fat with the sugar; add the cheese. I'm going to make some right Mix and sift all dry ingredients to­ beaten eggs, sour milk and molasses. Mix now. I'll line this colander with a pieoo gether; add the sour milk and well-beat­ and sift the dry ingredients and add to of cheesecloth, set it in a pan and :QUt en egg. Mix thoroly with dry ingredients. above mixture. Bake in a moderate in the clabber, then pour boiling water Bake in a moderate over 1 hour. oven. thru it until the curd begins to harden Bran Bread Sour Milk Doughnuts slightly. When it has drained I'll add 2c bran % c chopped ra1sms 1c sugar 1 tsp. soda salt, paprika and butter or cream, and 2c white flour 11hc sour milk 1c sour milk 3c flour (about) it is ready to serv·e with fruit, preserves ltsp. soda %c molasses 2 eggs 14 tsp. nutmeg or jams. ltsp. salt % tsp. salt "By adding nuts, cottage cheese makes Mix the dry ingredients together, add Beat the eggs, add tMI sugar, sour I)lilk, an excellent sandwich filling or bits of the sour milk mixed with the molasses; salt, nutmeg and soda; add flour to make pimento may be molded with it into little beat thoroly and bake in a moderate a soft dough. Roll, cut a nd fry in deep balls which nestle in lettuce leaves, mak­ oven. fat. ing a delicious salad. Cottage cheese contains all the protein of the milk and Whole Wheat or Graham Muffins Sour Cream Tea Cakes part of the fat, so It is of more food 1c sour milk 1c sour cream llhc flour value than most housewives suppose. 1;2 tsp. soda lh tsp. soda % tsp. baking powder "Sour milk may be substituted for 2 tbsp. melted fat 1c sugar 14 tsp. nutmeg sweet milk in any recipe by using 14 tea­ 2 tbsp. sugar 2 eggs spoon of soda to each cup of sour milk 2c whole wheat or graham flour Mix the soda with the cream; add the for sweetening, then using the amount 1 tsp. salt sugar and the beaten eggs. Sift flour, of baking powder (less one teaspoon for Sift dry ingredients; add fat and milk. salt, baking powder and nutmeg together . each cup of milk) given in the recipe. Bake in buttered muffin pans 15 minutes. (Continued on page 15) 8 THE IOWA HOMEMAKER

It seems incredible that 88 percent of our American THE lOWA HOMEMAKER youth do not receive a high school education, and even "A Magazine For Homemakers From a Homemaker's School" more appalling that the twelve who do are given the same training that our grandfathers had, taking no ac­ VOL. II NOVEMBER N0.8 count of the tremendous changes necessarily current since that time. If the present demand is for new men Published at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. Price $1.50 per to cope with new responsibilities, they cannot, even by year. Advertising rates on application a modern Merlin, be produced from the old school. It Entered as second class matter at the post office, Ames, Iowa takes new training for new people, and these revised educational aims promise this training. PUBLICATION BOARD-Prof. F. W. Beckman, Miss Florence Busse, Mrs. Frank Kerekes, Rose Storm, Ethel Huebner, Llyra Price, Esther Pond. DON'T BLAME THE DOCTOR EDITORIAL STAFF.:.._Rose Storm, editor; •Eleanor Murray, "Yes, the Browns had a dreadful time with Billy issue editor; Katherine Goeppinger, associate editor; Mar­ when he had the measles." cella Dewell, art editor; Clara Jordan, Opal Wind, Harriett Schleiter, Esther Ray·burn, Helen Hamilton, Ada Havner, "Is that right! Why, they had Doctor Dewey, didn't Viola Jammer, Mildred Boyt, Dorothy Kenworthy. they?" BUSINESS STAFF-Ethel Huebner, manager; Reva Pierce, '' Oh, yes, they employed the best of medical aid, but Harriett Sloss, Fern Green, Agnes Noble, Marjorie Jay, Helen Biliy is so stubborn he wouldn't take his medicine. Piper, Bertha Sanvoldt. When his father forced it down his gaping throat, he CIRCULATION STAFF-Llyra Price, manager; Mona Thomp­ son, Clare Yungclass, Fern Green, Esther Pond, Florence cried himself into a fever which soared until at times Hahn, Pearl Brown, Laura Bublitz, Paula Braunlich, Marcella they feared he could not live. Doctor Dewey did the Dewell. best he could, but he had no chance. Mr. and Mrs. Brown cared for him and he was so used to being hu­ SHALL WE ADOPT THE NEW EDUCATIONAL mored that he could not be made to do what was good AIMS? for him. He balked and shrieked and kicked at taking When statistics show that less than 12 percent of the his medicine just as he does so often. He is better now, pupils who enter the grades are graduated from high but the Browns certainly had a close call." school, the need for an improvement of conditions is How many times does Death call some loved little only too evident. Educational leaders thruout the coun­ one because he has not learned to obey? And may the try have been working on the problem and feel now that bereaved parents not blame the doctor!! they have the probable solution in a revision of the cur­ riculum of the school itself: WHO IS AFRAID OF HAPPINESS? The old high school system had for its four aims: College graduate ''eligibles'' today ask, ''Why should 1. Developing culture in the individual. I even think of marrying? I can scarcely support my­ 2. Cramming with facts because they are truths. self. ·when Mary is earning a larger salary than I am, 3. Mental discipline, learning facts because they are how could she live on half of mine?'' hard. The co-ed graduate answers, ''Try me.'' 4. Preparing students to enter college. She is willing to help. The glory of independent life Here culture was meant to be knowledge of the so­ and ''earning her own'' cannot be kept glittering with called cultural subjects, art, literature and music, of no yearly replating when the first coat of enthusiasm has practical value to the pupil. The second and third worn dull. points are self-explanatory. The last was a futile at­ The four years of more extravagant living has not tempt to prepare one hundred students for a problem taken from the co-ed her experience of some eighteen that only three of them would meet, since that is the years of home work and economy, and the worthwhile percentage of pupils who go to college. girl is eager to don the dust cap and kitchen gown of a The four aims under the new system are : degree in hom.e keeping. 1. Physical or health, providing regular medical ex­ If the college girl isn't willing to help her husband amination, useful health knowledge, powerful health start, she is not worth the privilege. ideals, careful .prevention of infection, and regular hab­ If the college man won't risk happiness in the face of its of exercise, cleanliness, eating, sleeping and care of poor prospects, his lack of courage doesn't deserve a vital organs. good wife. 2. Vocational guidance and training, to help each in­ dividual find what he can do best and prepare him for DO YOU "KEEP FAITH" useful service in life. Two friends have quarreled and parted. Time softens 3. Social-civic, developing a worthy home member­ the heart of one, and reconciliation seems necessary. ship, useful community life and a purer form of citizen­ You are the one person she knows can help and she ship in a strong love of country, both in peace and in writes you for advice. At the moment you think you war, and an absolute obedience to law. Lastly, the true will answer immediately, but Johnny runs in for lunch, application of Christianity. or the telephone summons you to other duties and 4. A vocational, or the worthy expenditure of leisure thoughts, so the letter is laid aside and forgotten. To time. you, the matter of another's woes is trivial. Since the nroblem is n'"~t only to keep the children in 'l'he author of the request is anxiously waiting, feeling school, but also to make their time well spent, why could sure you will hasten your reply. Your failure to an­ not their culture be in a thorough knowledge of present swer convinces her that her desire is wrong, and that conditions and affairs ? Why could not the ninety-seven you are no longer a source of help. who do not go to college be trained for their life occupa­ In your neglect, you have not only kept these persons tion? Of what benefit is speaking Italian if the individ­ from their happiness, but you have also broken her faith ual cannot use the English language in a patriotic way? in friends. 1'1IE lOWA 1IOMEMAI1ER 9

QU~~TION C AD

PANNE VELVETS PLACING OF OYSTER FORK TO TEST FRUIT JARS How may one panne velvet at home? In setting the table, what is the proper posi­ have had trouble with my canned goods Lay the velvet on a table, face down, tion for the oyster fork 7 spoiling. Might t he fault be with the jars 7 If and dampen the back with a clean cloth The oyster fork should be placed at the so, how could they be tested 7 which has been dipped in water and extreme right. To test the screw-top jar, fill with wrung partially dry. Rub the velvet in water and put on the rubber and top. the direction of the nap, not against the CARBOHYDRATE FOODS Turn upside down. If no water escapes, nap. After the back has been slightly Will you give me the names of some vegetables it will be safe to use the jar. In testing dampened, place the velvet on an ironing which have a hig h carbohydrate content? the glass top jar, lay the cover on with· board, face down, and press lightly in Potatoes, corn, baked beans, shell out a rubber. If the clamp clicks when the direction of the nap. Do not allow beans, boiled rice and boiled macaroni put in position, the jar is a good one. the iron to rest on the velvet as it will all contain 20 percent carbohydrate, leave an impression on it. which is a high percentage for vegetables. BUTTER ON A SALAD PLATE Is it permissible to put butter on a salad SPINACH SOUP MAYONNAISE-WHIPPER plate? I was in a tea r oom the other day where What is a good recipe for spinach sou p? Is there any new equipment for making beaten this was done. A very satisfactory soup is one qt. of mayonnaise? Yes, it is permissible when the table is white sauce; two cups of cooked spinach There is a new mayonnaise-whipper on not large enough for both the salad and with plenty of salt added. Cook up the the market which is very satisfactory for bread and butter plates. In such a case, spinach, bring to boiling point, strain. the reason that it has an oil horn and a the butter spreader should be placed Combine with hot white sauce, season, re­ stop-cock which r egulates the flow of oil above the luncheon plate. heat and serve. AH other greens may be into the bowl. This whipper comes in a used in the same way. small and large size. GOOD WAFFLES ON AN ELECTRIC IRON SPOTS ON FURNITURE SACCHARIN Why do waffles cooked on an electric iron Can you tell me how to r emove wat er spots What are points of difference between sac. charin and white sugar? seem tough and hard ? Is there any way of mak­ from a polished table 7 ing soft, delicious w affles on an electric iron? Rub with a moist cloth on which a few Saccharin does not give heat units, while sugar does; saccharin is taken from The greasing of the waffle iron is what drops of household ammonia have been keeps the waffle soft and tender. Since placed. Polish with a soft cloth. A gen­ coal tar, while sugar is a plant product; saccharin is 500 times as sweet as sugar. the fine-grained aluminum irons, used for tle rubbing with a damp cloth dipped in cooking by electricity, do not need to be powdered pumice stone will also remove greased, the result is an apparent tough­ such a spot. PHOSPHORUS REQUIREMENT How much phosphorus does the body need ening of the cakes. Try doubling the daily a nd what foods supply phosphorus? amount of shortening in your recipe, and CABLE STITCHING The body needs 1.44 grams daily. Lean keep on increasing the quantity until you What is cable-stitching and how is it done 7 beef, whole •cereals, cheese, carrots and have soft, tender cakes. Cable-stitching is an ornamental ma­ peanuts are all rich in phosphorus. chine stitching. It is done by placing heavy mercerized or silk thread on the SUBSTITUTING SYRUP IN CAKES MAKING JELLY IN PRESSURE If I use syrup in p lace of sugar in cakes how bobbin. The stitch of the machine is COOKER lengthened and the material is stitched do I a! ter the rest of the recipe 7 I s there any advantage in cooking fruits for If from the wrong side, giving a couched j elly in a pressu re cooker? syrup is used in place of sugar in effoct on the right side. making cakes or cookies the batter is Yes, fruits cooked first by steam press· heavier and requires more baking pow­ ure yield 15 to 25 per cent more jelly than der. The liquid used should be reduced FOOD VALUE OF CEREALS when cooked in the usual way. 14 cup for every cup of syrup used. You What qualities do cereals possess t ha t make them desirable 7 will find the texture of the finished prod- INDELIBLE INK STAIN • uct will not be so good when syrup is Cereals form the cheapest source of en­ Wha t will remove an indelible ink stain from ergy, which is supplied by starch, and cotton materia l ? substituted as when all sugar is used. averages 70 percent of the grains. Cereals As both inks and dyes vary in compo­ furnish building material 7-12 percent, sition, it is always advisable to try the TO SERVE ICES they contain mineral matter and other r eagents to be used on a sample of the How should ices or sherberts be served 7 Should sucstances necessary for health and material before applying them to the t hey be put into the dishes or glasses in the growth. They furnish desirable bulk in stained garment. I believe, however, kitchen a nd then carried to the table 7 the diet. that potassium cyanide (10 percent solu­ Sherberts and ices need not necessarily tion) and sodium thiosulphate (5 per­ be served in the kitchen. They should LAUNDERING WOOL cent solution) will remove the stain to never be carried in from the kitchen two Is it true that wool fibers are injured if rubbed which you refer. Use a medicine drop­ by two, but may be carried on a tray to when laundered 7 per for both Teagents, dropping first a the serving table and then placed on the Yes, the texture of wool is changed by little potassium cyanide on the stain, table one at a time. It is nice to serve rubbing. The •best way to launder wool then washing it off with water. Repeat such desserts from the t3!ble. If the ice is to use luke-warm soapy water, with· this several times; then proceed with the is not in a mold, merely take it from the out rubbing, and rinse in water of the s~me process, using the sodium thiosul­ freezer, put it into a serving dish and same temperature. Do not press with a phate. Be sure to wash the chemicals have the host serve it into the dishes, and hot iron. from the garment. pass them around the table. 10 THE lOWA IIOMEMAJ[ER

+·-··-··~··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- + ! i An Indian Romance QUADE STUDIO I By MILLIE LERDALL i 417 Main I I i WHERE did you get that old arrow­ making, but specifically she was pos­ ! head, Grandpa?" Were there In­ sessed of the magic power to heal + - ··-··- ··-··-··-··-·-·-··-··-··-·-·+ dians here when you first came? It's wounds and cure the s ick. Messengers such a funny looking old thing." I mar­ came from far and wide to secure her aid ' ! - ~ • -.-.-..• --- (.,' veled as I spoke. And so Grandpa, thus on behalf of some sick member of their "~.. ~ ~ invited, told his story. tri·be, and she gave unselfishly of her time "Well, sir, it really was when I first that others might benefit from the gift came to this farm that I got that old ar­ that was hers. It was during otte of her rowhead. You know the Indians used to frequent visits of mercy among the Sioux live around in this part of the county Indians that Big Bear had first seen her many, many years ago-from Spirit Lake and began to worship her. But did not east thru here and on into Minnesota. everyone love her at first sight? Many Perhaps that was one reason I came here, times did he look into her dark, laughing for I always did like anything with some eyes for ·some bit of en•couragement, only historical connection. If I was inter­ to learn nothing of what was locked ested in farming at that time I IWas just within her heart. Arrawana admired the as interested in reading about the In­ Big ,Sioux chief, but love had found no dians and the struggle of the whites dur­ place in her heart as yet. She was too 75 Out of 100 ing the massacres of 1850. busy ministering to others to think of Headaches Due love. Even the whites in the settlement "Well, sir (that is one of his favorite !Were fortunate enough to be able to call To Eye Strain expressions), I read so much and thought her friend, and her errands of mercy in­ so much about it that Grandma cluded them whenever they needed her. said I might as well be an Indian myself. Right Glasses have solved this Then one night the climax came thru a "Love had always been a thing remote problem to many eyeglass dream. I guess I had ·been thinking in her life until one moonlight night wearers. about the Indians more than usual that she discovered it. Leaving a sick child, day and I read late that night. But whom she had finally coaxed to sleep, she first I must tell you about the old In­ slipped down to the creek for a cold dian legend I was reading that night be­ drink and to carry back a dampened cloth fore I had my dream. to cool a feverish brow. As she leaned DR. f. E. ROBINSON over the water she saw her reflection in "It may have been at a time when bhe moonlight and was reminded of the Exclusive Optometrist Iowa was awol for all we know. At any old tradition her mother used to tell her rate the Indians claimed it as their hap­ Over Gift Shop so often. 'Look in the water with the Ames, Iowa PY hunting ground and very few whites moon over the left shoulder and the face had cared to stake out claims after the of your lover will be revealed to you,' horrible massacres around the northern was what her mother had said. lakes in 1850. Inkpaduta, one-time lead­ er of the savage Big Sioux tribe, was "Surprised at the overwhelming desire feared by the whites as was no other In­ within her to prove that tradition, she +•-• • - • •-••-••- •• -••-••-••- ~ •-a• -~"-••- + dian chief. Even the Indians feared him yielded, and shifted her position so that i - all but one, his son, Chief Big Bear, a the moon 1\Vould shine over her left shoul­ Rtal1wart young Indian brave who inher­ der. Quite clearly and distinctly then a i ited at once the fierce and savage charac­ familiar fllice smiled into hers and she i teristics of 'his big Sioux father and the gave a startled look around. She saw We Are f .!!:entler characteristics of his mother, nothing but empty sJ?ace and trees in the who came from a less savage tribe. Big distance. Chief Big Bear had vanished Bear had only one weakness-his over­ as silently as he had come. "She waited a moment and listened. i Powering love for an Indian maiden of the neighboring Sac and Fox tribe. It Then, hearing nothing, she turned and Prepared i was weakness to him, ·because he knew started back, choosing a different direc­ i not how to express himself. Tho he tion than the one from which she had rould face the most savage of warriors come. i on the warpath without a single trar.e of "She r emembered hearing the squaws i fear, he could not face a woman and tell talking excitedly at dusk, and she knew to handle any sized account. j her of his love. "Well, as I was saying," Grandpa con­ \Ve hope you will be prepared j tinued, "the Big Sioux confined them­ +·-··-··-··-··- ··-··-···-··- ··-··- ··-··- + selves largely to northern Iowa, up ! i to make a report to ''Dad'' or j around in this part of the country, while i the Sac and Foxes lived farther north I The Quality Loaf \ the " Boss." j across the Minnesota line. "The Sioux, however, !Were not des­ tined to be satisfied as the sole possessors. i of northern Iowa for long, for the !Whites Have you insured your wear- j kept pushing gradually westward until BUTTER NUT I I ing apparel ~ one bright morning the Indians were con­ I i i fronted with the proposition of how to i : dispose of a new settlement of whites i who had dared to disturb their peace and i rtuiet. Ohief Big Bear, with all of the i barbarism of 'his savage forefathers ris­ I BREAD I ing within him, called a council. But i the final decision, reached after hours of UNION NATIONAL i deliberation, was to postpone an attack indefinitely in order to keep the enemy i i.n suspense for a while. I BANK i "Arrawana, of the Sac and Fox tribe, ·Ames, Iowa 1\vas as universally loved within her tribe 1 Bates Baking Co ..I as was Chief Big Bear within his. Her . i talents ran generally to basket and bead + -··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-··-··-·+ + -··-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-··-··-··-·-·+' THE lOWA IIOMEMAKER 11 from that the Big Chief had called his r·-.. _.. _.,_,,_.,_ .. _.,_,_,,_., __ .. _.r braves together in council. She feared for the whites, for well she understood the impatience and treacherous attitude of this savage tribe. She had been a i Eness I missionary to the whites in times of sick­ ness-why couldn't she be a missionary :in time of danger? { Music House { "She slipped noiselessly up to within : j hearing distance of the group around their campfire. They were too busy to I Everything in Music j hear her had she gone less quietly, but knowing the penalty for spying she cared High-Grade j to run no risk. She kept her eyes open for guards and concealed herself in the j heavy underbrush of the forest. It was Do Your Feet Help PIANOS just as she had feared. They were plan­ You or Hinder You! ning to attack the whites at daybreak and l 'while they were still sleeping and keep Vigorous, healthy feet help the scalps for a war dance the following you! They make your PHONOGRAPHS night at midnight. work seem lighter-they t "Big Bear was now truly savage and enable you to enjoy things. Sold on Terms. j the plans of treachery originating from On the other hand, un­ his fertile brain would have made his comfortable, strained, f aching feet make life a I Siouian ancestors burst with pride. Even continualdrudgery. Ordi­ + ~ -··-··-· · -··-··-i·-··-··-·-·-··-··-·+ Inkpaduta could SCl!-rCely have equaled nary shoes with sagging him. arches make troublesome "Arrawana, as she watched him, knew feet. Arch Preserver ...... ~~ ..... -~. that she loved him for his savagery, be­ Shoes, because the built­ cause she was savage herself, but the in arch comes up and stays womanly spirit within her arose to smoth­ up to the instep, keep the er that flame of love for the sake of her feet well. You can make I SPECIAU J helpless victims in the white settlement. your feet healthy· ancl. There was no time to lose. She turned vigorous by wearing Ar•ch and picked her way cautiously to a safe Preserver Shoes_ y,,u'll ' UJ .1!. .- _Jn& • distance from any possible guard and be delighted with tb" gooo ran, jumping over rocks as they came in ,,....art styles. t"':. o- her /Way and wading streams to cover the ~~~~ distance as quickly as possi·ble. As she approached the settlement a shot was SLADE SHOE CO. • • • fired that struck her in the shoulder. The whites, alarmed at the my-sterious Boone Iowa 'COFFEE I actions of the Indians the day before, were evidently on their guard. But the I e'Rich and Mellow'' I girl ran on, unafraid, determined to give her warning and get back before she was I I missed. Packed by new her- 1 " 'Run for your lives!' was all she could I metic seal process that say to the guard before she slipped away f retainsinta ctthefresh I again into the darkness of the forest­ but that was enough to start action with­ J roasted fragrance. 1 in the settlement. KEEPS THE FOOT WELL "Next morning at daybreak the Big Chief knelt beside her lifeless form •...... -...:.-.....J where she had fallen by the side of the stream, faint from fatigue and loss of blood. The whole tribe mourned the +·-··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··-··-··-··- ··- ··-··-··- ··-··-··- ··-··-··- ··- ··-·-··- ··-·... -·-·-·t death of this Indian maiden, but the ! whites never learned that the girl who had ministered so much to them, yes, the girl who had saved them from the merci­ lessness of the savages had died at their The Sheldon--Munn Cafe hands. And then the Big Chief, strick­ l en with grief, ended his 0/Wn life that he offers you clean, prompt service, best foods, well prepared, at ex­ j might go to the happy hunting ground ceptionally l o~ prices. with her. The heart of every Big Sioux and of every .Sac and Fox Indian was filled with grief. The bodies were placed Breakfast served a la carte side by side on stretchers supported by I Luncheon, 50c +._.·-··-··-··-·-·-· · -··- ··- ·· - ·· - ·~ - + Dinner, 75c Ii I The LeVerne I f:lunday Dinners, $1.00 j 1. Beauty Shopj., Meal Tickets at Reduced Rates 1. Phone 307 1 i I I 2502~ Lincoln Way i Personal Attention given to all Private Parties i I i i +-·-·-··-·-··-··-·-·-··-··-··-··-+ + -n-• • -• • -••-••-•-••-••-•- •• - •• -••- •• -••-- •• -•·-~~~ - •• - •• -• • -••-••-•-·-•-+ 12 THE lOWA HOMEMAKER poles out in the open, and according to still not enough to think of going out +·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-! . tI an Indian custom, the treasured posses­ there. I . sion of each were laid on the ground sur­ "But the third night, when I dreamed rounding them. Red men for miles and it again I could stand it no longer. I miles came to pay homage to the two awoke and, without even waiting for who, thru service, had found their way daylight, I took a spade and IWent out ICollege I into the hearts of their people; the one there. The moon was shining and it = r as an angel of mercy, the other an as un­ was almost as light as day. Sure enough excelled leader of red man. An arrow­ there was that rock with the oak stake head, the most treasured possession of beside, tho I had never noticed it be­ the Chief, was buried with him to help fore. So I commenced to dig and I'll bet ISavings I his spirit into the happy hunting ground. I dug for an hour or more. Then just To him, in life, it was priceless, because as I was about to give up in despair my Arrawana had given it to him as a token spade struck something hard and I of love, so in death it should go with him stooped eagerly to see what I had struck. as an emblem of the love that never had The chills fairly flew down my back when 'Bank I ripened for them. I saw what it was. What could be worse "That IWas the legend I read the the than a pile of white bones in the moon­ I night before my dream," Grandpa con­ light? Well, sir , they looked so spooky r tinued without a pause, "So it isn't any and ghastly in that cold moonlight that I wonder I dreamed what I did. It must threw down my shovel and ran for the have been about the first night I slept in house as fast as I knew how to get there. this old house. You know the old saying "The next day I want out to fill up. the I about dreams you dream in a strange hole, but first I thought I might as well Safety house always coming true?" take another look at the bones. And f there I found this arrowhead." I smiled and said that I did. "And do you really think it is the ar­ "Well," he continued, "a voice was say­ rowhead of the legend, Grandpa?" I said, Service ing 'Go out in your pasture and near turning it over and over with r enewed l the corner of your grove, beside a huge interest. i rock, you'll find an oak stake. Dig be­ "I don't think nothin' different," he Silence neath that stake and you'll find a hidden said, "but ·buried treasure, indeed, says · f treasure.' !-arrowheads may have been treasure i "I can see the three ponds there yet. to the Indians, but I'm darned if I We used to have three small ponds of wouldn't as soon have good old American water over on that part of the farm, but gold and silver for mine." that was before we had it drained and f tiled. Well, I never thought much about "God gave all men all earth to love, but, 60 Feet from the Campus that dream, because I knew I had been since their hearts ·are small, ordained for i reading a good deal. But the next night each one place which should prove be­ South Side 'J I dreamed the same thing over again, and loved over all. That place is home, and I i after that I thought about it a little, but they have lived who find it."-Kipling. + -··-··-··-··-··--·-··-··--·--·-··-~--+ +·-·--··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·--··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-·--··-··-··-·-- -··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·--+ l i i +l-tl-111-lt-11-tl-ll-1-ll-ll-ll-11-111-ll-11-ll -ttl-ll-ll-ll-11 ll-11-ni-II-I~-MII-IM-11-II-11-II-II-11-II-11-II-II-II-11-+ I i I I r "A Place to Eat, Where the food's a Treat" i Ii I i i I I That's The College Inn f i If I I I Whether it's Creamed Crushed Potatoes i i Delicious Salads, or the Choicest Pastries i I r I f i You can get the best at the smallest cost at the I f i f I f I I i i i Ii I COLLEGE INN On the Campus JOHN I. NELSON, Mgr. i I f II i ' I I i i +--·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··---·-··-·-··-·-~~-··-··-·-··-··- ·· -··- ·· -··-··-··- ·· - ·· -··-· · -· · -··-··-··-··-··-·-··-·+ I I . j +---·-··-·-----··-··--·-··-··-··-··-·--·------·-·-··-··-··-·-··-··-·-·-·· ··- ··-·--·-··-··-··--·-··--·--·-··-··-·--+ THE lOWA HOMEMAil.ER 13

The Song of the Thanks-­ +·-··-··-··-·-··-··-··-··-··- ··-··- ··- + t +·-·-··-·· -·-·-·-·---·-·-··-··- l giving Pie Shaeffer's Life-Time Pens AMES SHINING By ELEANOR MURRAY I I I JACK HORNER had a famous Christmas Parker's Duofold Pens and plum pie, Christopher Morley named l I I a book of delightful essays in honor of I I I "Mince Pie," various nursery rhymes have SHOE REPAIRING SHOP been written about apple pies, but who I Athletic Drug Co. I I has sung of the Thanksgiving pie-pump­ I i I Old Shoes Made Like New kin, golden, rich and delicious. Thanks­ I 2816 West St. i giving without it is worse than Christmas I 212 East Main St. Phone 606 I Ames, Ia. without a tree. I i I Ames, Iowa I When pastry is to be served, it should I i I be of the best, light, flaky and tender. •Il Pastry flour, and fresh sweet shorten­ + -··-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-··-·-··-··-·+ + -··-··-··-··-··-·--- ing, thoroughly chilled, are essential. i·-·~.,_,,_.,_.,_,,_,_,,_.,_,,_., .,_,,_,,_.,_,,_.,_ ,,_,,_.,_,,_,,_,,_,,_.,_,_l The lightness depends on the expansion __ of air in the baking and the flakiness on the kind and amount of shortening. Lard makes a more tender crust, but butter · gives a better flavor; therefore, a com­ I I nation of the two, with the butter thor­ oughly washed to remove salt and any milk. · I Cranford Beauty Shop I Plain Paste I 172 c. flour I 2400 Lincoln Way Phone 1542 14 c. lard 1,4 c. butter I 72 tsp, salt Cold water I Wash the butter, pat and form in a cir­ I cular piece. Add salt to the flour and work in the lard with the finger tips or + --·-··-·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-~~·-··-··-··-··-·--·-··-··-··-··-·--·-••-41•-·--·+ a case knife. Moisten with a little of the cold water-ice water is desirable if han­ +·-··-··-··-··-·--·--··-·----·----·--··-·-·-·-··------·--··-·--··-··--t dy. Toss on a 'board dredged with flour, pat and roll out. Fold in the butter by placing half the crust over the other half t i and pressing the edges firmly together to incase as much air as possible. Press with the rolling pin and roll out. Fold ! 20 STYLES l again and roll. Repeat this three times. Paste With Lard Alone t i 1 c. pastry flour . I 5 tbsp. lard of Hose to seleet f'om, in Silk, Wool, and Silk and Wbol 1,4 tsp. salt I l About 6 tbsp. cold water . I Mix the flour and salt and work in I half of the lard with the finger tips or i case knife. Turn on the board, dust with flour, pat and roll out. Fold in the lard, repeating three times. This is suffcient I Trueblood's Shoe Store I for one pie with two crusts. i I Of course the crust is most important, i South Side j and though a poor one ruins the pie and a good one improves it immensely, the real I I part of the pie, particularly pumpkin, is the filling. Don't make this dark by + -··-··-·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-··-··-·-··-·--·-·----·---+ using too much spice. Filling for Pumpkin Pie +·-·--··-··-·--··-··-·--··-··-··-··- -··-··-··-··-·- -··-··-··-·-·-·-·-·---+ 172 c. steamed, strained pump- I kin I 2-3 c. brown sugar LITTLE CRAFT SHOP 1 tsp. cinnamon % tsp. ginger 72 tsp. salt 2 eggs 1% c. milk Most complete line of Fonnal and Informal Favors, Table Decora~ %c. cream I Mix ~n the order given and bake in one tions, and Complete Party Arrangements we have ever displayed. I crust, not previously baked. Plain pumpkin pie is delicious; served with whipped cream or ice cream it is t more delicious. IDEALS Des Moines Only Exclusive Gift Shop Ideals are like stars; you rwill not suc­ ceed in touching them with your hands, I but like the sea-faring man on the desert I 808 Walnut Mrs. G. C. Linley of waters, you choose them as your I guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny.-Carl Schurz. I +-··-·-·-·---·-··-·-··-· -··-·-··-~~·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·----·--·-·+ 14 THE lOWA HOMEMAKER Scarlet November +·-··-··-··-··-··-··- ··-··-··-··-··-··- + By ELEANOR MURRAY l l Fie upon thee, November! thou dost ape f ANNEX f The airs of thy young sisters,-thou hast stolen i Tailors & Cleaners i The witching smile of May to grace thy Do You lips, . Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing, ~ And April's rare capricious loveliness Sew in Thou'rt trying to put on! Rug Cleaning . November to me u·sed to be colorless. Comfort? The very word November meant cold and Ladies' Work a Specialty winter and the end of summer and color. To so many people November means this Phone 369 221 Main St. Have you ever considered the ..;....cold, a flurry of snow perhaps, bare ! great strain that sewing imposes .on trees and even the suggestion of death. l + -··-~·-··-··- ·· -··-··-··-··-··-··-·· - · + the optic nerves? Ideas change and now I like to think of Perhaps your eyes tire easily November as scarlet-scarlet sunsets­ while sewing. Do you realize that 'scarlet oak leaves-scarlet ivy-scarlet +·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-·"-··- + rightly fitted glasses would probably berries and scarlet bushes. November is i correct the trouble? a Jules Guerin picture-all gray and a We suggest an examination of dash of bright color. your eyes, to determine if · glasses To be sure she has stolen, or perhaps AVOID THAT COLD i should be worn. just borrowed, for she will give them all l J;lack, from the other months, but to this We mend the rips and patch Our Glasses May Prove she has added her own scarlet charms-a the holes, build up the heels, A Real Blessing to Your Sight. sunset with color that makes one stop and wish it were possible to keep just a and save your soles. liit of it forever-a tendril of scarlet ivy L. C. TALLMAN gently clinging to a gray-white pillar-a OPTOMETRIST twig of bittersweet. November is the link between summer Linder's Shoe Shop and winter. The last traces of summer, I the last migrating birds, the last green + grass merge into the first hint of winter -··-··-··- ··- ··-··-··-··-·-··-··-··-·+ and snow, the first red cranberry sauce and the first mince pie. +·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- ·-··-··-·"-·~-··-··-··-··-··- -··-··-··-··-··-··-·-·-··- t Let November mean something new this I year, and in this interesting month re­ member the historical, Armistice and Eat at the Thanksgiving, and don't forget to have 1 I picnics around a blazing fire, to have fires in the fireplace and toast marshmallows, to start thinking about Christmas and to gather some scarlet bittersweet for a CAMPUS I brass or an old. blue bowl this winter. I A RESOLUTION To keep my health! To do my work! To live! To see to it I grow and gain I and give! Never to look behind me for LUNCH ! an hour! To !Wait in weakness and walk in power! But always fronting forward I to the light! Always and always facing i toward the right! Robbed, starved, or where you get the Quality and the Service. we serve waffles defeated, fallen, wide astray-On, with i what strength I have! Back to the way! any time. Give us a trial. We thank you. I A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS I Keep your head cool-your feet warm­ I ! your mind busy. Don't worry over tri­ +-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- ·-··-··-·-··-··-··--lt-ll---+ fles. Plan your work ahead, then stick fo it-rain or shine. Don't !Waste sym· pathy on yourself. If you are a gem, someone will find you. Don't whine, tell people you are a fail­ ure and they will believe you. Talk and act like a winner, and i;1 time you will become one. -liiicOiNi WAYMARKETi I +·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- + I Woodworth's i I I II. FIANCEE and KARESS Ij I SEE ME FOR YOUR I i l The most favored Domestic = I Pedumes ill the world I ! I I JUDISCH BROTHERS i I PICNIC PARTIES J Drug Store f i tl . . i + -.!1-tll-11-all-·-·-··--·-·-··-··-··-·+ +·---··-··-··-·-·-·-·-··-··-··-··-·-··-··-··-··--·-··-·-··-·------·---+ THE lOWA HOMEMAJ[ER 15 · So"ur Milk and Its Uses +•-••-••-••-••- ••- ••-••-••-u•-••- ••- ••- ••-••-••- ••-••-•r.-••-••-••-••-••-••-••- ••- ••- + , (Continued from page 7) Combine dry ingredients with sour cream :_::: Candy, Salted Nuts, Popcorn Balls ~~=.: mixture. Bake in buttered muffin pans in a hot oven. BUNTE'S Fancy Party Candies, Home-Made Candy, Salted Nuts and Popcorn Balls are our specialties. Also Ice Cream and Cold i Drinks. 1%c sugar lhc sour milk % tbsp. fat 1 tsp. vanilla i HOWARD ADAMS ' 2 eggs % tsp. salt i The Little Store with the Big Eats . 1c sour cream 1 tsp. soda 2c flour i 222 Main St. i 2 squares melted chocolate i i +•-•• -••-••-••-••-•• -• • -••-11•-••-••---•a-•• -•• - ~• -•• -• • -••-•• -•• -••-••-••-••-••-• • -••-•+ Cream the fat; add the sugar and beaten eggs; add cream, milk and va­ nilla. Sift the salt, soda and flour to­ t gether; combine with the sour cream +·-··-··-··- 11·-··-··- ··-··-··-··-··-··-··- ··-··-··-··-··-··- ··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- mixture and add the melted chocolate. Beat thoroly and bake. Sour Ct·eam Molasses Cookies Oh Look! %c fat 1 tsp. soda %c brown sugar 1 tsp. salt A Real Place to Eat %c molasses % tbsp. ginger I 2 eggs lh tbsp. cinnamon %c sour cream Flour HOME-COOKED MEALS Cream the fat, add sugar, molasses, I eggs well beaten, and sour cream. Mix i and sift soda, salt ginger, cinnamon and I 1c flour together; add flour to make soft dough. Chill and roll % inch thick, cut, Cranford Coffee Shop place on buttered tin and bake in a mod­ 1 erate oven. i Special Plate Lunch 11 :30 to 1 :30, 35c Little Brown Cakes i Private Room for Banquets Catering ·Solicited 2c brown sugar % tsp. cinnamon . i 1c shortening % tsp. cloves 3 eggs 1c raisins i I 1c sour milk lh tsp. nutmeg + -··-· · -··-··-· · -· · -·· -··-··-· · -··-··- ·· -~·- ··-··-··-··-· · -··-··-··-··-··-· ·-··-·-·+ 1 tsp. salt 3c flour 1 tsp. soda +1-II-II-II-II - II- II-111-II-II-II-II-II-MW- 111- -·1-II-II- 11 -MI-~I-II-II-II-II-II-11- + Cream the shortening and sugar and· i add well-beaten eggs and milk. Sift dry ingredients together, add raisins and add to first mixture. Bake in small buttered t muffin pans in a moderate oven. I Interior Decorating I +:-··-·--·-·-·-··-··- ··-··-··-··-··- + i ! There are some who are of the opinion that to have the home 1 decorated by artisans, skilled in the art of interior decorating, I The I means large expenditures. This is entirely erroneous, for the i plans and schemes of interior decorating are made only after an i amount has been decided upon by the client for whom the decor­ I G. T. HART i ating is to be done. I i Interior decorating is considered an art by this Store, and only i those well fitted to carry on such work are associated with this Studio staff. ! Inquiries will be given prompt attention and a conference with 1 PHOTOGRAPHS our representatives will entail no obligation whatever, for this is i but a part of the service offered by this institution. l and a Fine Line of HAND-CARVED FRAMES I1. . I1 I I G. T. HART Younker Brothers I I. I i + ---·---·------+ + -· · -~·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··--·-··-'·-··-··-·- ··-··-··-·-··-··-· · -··-··-·+ 16 THE lOWA HOMEMAKER

Dried Apple Cake 1c dried apples 1c sour milk 1c molasses 1 egg r ..- ..--·- ..-- ..- ·-·1 %c fat loc sugar 1 tsp. soda 3%c flour 1 tsp. cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg 1c raisins 1 1h tsp. salt Ames Pantorium 1 Soak apples over night. Drain, add molasses and cook until thickened. Add i I fat and cool mixture. Add mixed and sifted dry ingredients and the raisins. which have .been stewed in a small I I amount of water until water is absorbed. This makes the raisins plumper and bet­ t Master Cleaners I ter cooked and will help to prevent them l going to. the bottom of the loaf in baking. i. r Apple Sauce Cake ( w ithout eggs) ! f J 208 Main Street lf.Jc fat f 1c sugar 1c apple sauce pulp (sweetened) l P~oo~l J H~c flour %tsp. cloves I I 1 tsp. soda ';i tsp. salt . r 1 tsp. cinnamon %,c raisins !• 1. Cream fat, add sugar and continue l . creaming. Add apple sauce and dry in­ gredients, mixed and sifted. Beat vigor­ I ously one minute >and add raisins. Fill a ! We call for and deliver l: loaf cake pan and bake 40 minutes in a l I moderate over. NOTE.-Apricot, rhubarb or cranberry i i pump may be used. + -·-··-·-··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··--·- ··-··- ··- ··--·- -·-··-··-·--·-·-··--·--·---+ "Is it any wonder I save the milk? Baked foods are so good in the winter time, and sour milk recipes are as easily r·- ··- ··- .. - ··- .. - ··- ··- ··- ··- .. - ··- ··- .. - ··- ··- ··-·- .. -·- ··- .. - .. -·- ··-·-·-·- T made as are those calling for sweet milk." ! I HAPPINESS 1 r If thou workest at that which is before thee, following right r eason seriously, vigorously, calmly without allowing any­ thing else to di.stract thee, but keeping thy divine part sure, if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately; if I thou boldest to this, expecting nothing, Folks------fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activities according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and I sound !Which thou utterest, thou wilt live I happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.-Marcus Aurelius. I

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